InfoQ Homepage News
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RubyLearning.com to Relaunch Free Online Lessons
After achieving popularity last summer, Satish Talim at <a href="http://www.rubylearning.com/" target="_new">RubyLearning</a> is doing it again with his free online course. It started as a way for him to pick up the language, and after the community picked up on it, over 100 people joined him. He hopes to do better this time.
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Interview: OpenJPA & the JPA spec with Patrick Linskey
OpenJPA is an implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA) which can be used as a stand-alone POJO persistence layer, or it can be integrated into any EJB3.0 compliant container and many lightweight frameworks. In this interview, Patrick Linskey explains where OpenJPA came from, how it fits into the O/R Mapping space, the JPA specification, and future plans for OpenJPA.
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Ruby 1.9 adds Fibers for lightweight concurrency
Fibers were recently in the Ruby 1.9 branch. The Coroutine-like concept has many uses, such as implementing lightweight concurrency and others. We look at the concept and influences of Fibers in Ruby 1.9, as well as code samples.
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Interview: Jim Webber on "Guerilla SOA"
In this InfoQ interview, recorded at QCon London, Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks SOA practice leader talks to Stefan Tilkov about Guerilla SOA, a lightweight approach to SOA that does not rely on big middleware products, a message-oriented architectural style called MEST and its differences to REST, and the SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL).
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Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Volumes 4 and 5 released
Volume 4 and 5 in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture book series has been released. Volume 4 is about a pattern language for distributed computing and volume 5 is an in-depth look of what patterns are, what they are not, and how to use them successfully. InfoQ spoke to the authors to find out more.
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JRuby 1.0.1 release, JRuby 1.1 plan posted
Bugfix release JRuby 1.0.1 has just been made available, In other news: the planned items for JRuby 1.1, due this fall, were posted.
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CodeSmith's PLINQO: Replace & Extend LINQ to SQL
CodeSmith released Professional LINQ to Objects, a set of templates to be used with CodeSmith and Visual Studio 2008 that supplement Microsoft's upcoming LINQ to SQL and have many great features including the ability ot generate or update a LINQ to SQL dbml file from a db schema, generation of LINQ to SQL entity manager & entity classes as well as the DataContext class.
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Selling SOA to the Business
Richard Veryard, a software industry analyst for the CBDi Forum, ponders the question: Do we have to sell SOA? If yes, how should it be done? He also talks about the cost and ROI of SOA.
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JQuery Gains Live DOM Binding with Live Query Plugin
Live Query is a new plugin for jQuery that lets you register events or fire callbacks for matching DOM elements. The binding not only applies to elements that exist in the page at load time but also elements that are added later via Ajax.
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FiveRuns Readies Latest Component of Rails Stack - Installer
FiveRuns, an enterprise Rails company, have built an installer for Ruby and associated packages.
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Ruby Hoedown Presentations available online
Videos of the sessions from the Ruby Hoedown conference are now available online. Topics such as Merb, Ruby tuning, VoIP with Ruby are covered, as well as Smalltalk and Ruby history and much more.
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JBoss Drools 4.0: Business rules now more accessible to non-programmers
JBoss Drools, an open-source business rules engine, recently reached version 4.0. InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about JBoss Drools and its current and future capabilities.
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OpenCSA Plenary Kick-starts SCA Standardization Effort
Less than a week after the official announcement concerning the formation of 6 new SCA-related technical committees, OASIS announces that there will be a 3 day Plenary, which will include an educational day followed by the first meetings of the various committees.
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Catching Up with Scala
The Scala programming language has been catching the eye of a number of developers as of late. Scala is a functional object-oriented language which provides a seamless blend of features not found elsewhere, all while running on the JVM.
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Call .NET Libraries from Lisp Using RDNZL
A long standing complaint about Lisp is the lack of high quality libraries. While the truth of this is disputed, there is certainly value in having access to the wide array of libraries found in the .Net platform.